Hvae the chance to pick up the above kit for a bit cheaper than the Hasegawa one.
Does anyone have any opinions on this kit? Or should I psend a few extra bucks (aorund $5) and get the Hasegawa kit?
I read somewhere it may be a copy of the Hasegawa kit. Can oneone confirm/deny
If it’s the old Monogram kit reboxed by Revell, by all means spend the extra $ for the Hasegawa kit. Revell has reboxed some Hasegawa kits, but I haven’t seen a reboxing of the Hurricane, so odds are it’s the old Monogram.
Regards, Rick
I had a look at the parts on the Sprue. The panel lines are all engraved. (if thats any help)
This is the kit in question
Go Hasegawa, it’s a sweet kit.
The Airfix is really good also (MK I)
Hobbycraft Canada also produces a Hurrucane II C (night fighter version):
http://www.hobbycraft.com/product.php?id=126
Don’t know the quality though but since it is made much later than Monogram one, I guess it must be better. Don’t know if it can come close to Hasegawa, but it’s cheaper than Hasegawa in Vacouver here.
G’day,
The Revell 48 scale Hurricane IIc is the Hasegawa tooled kit in a Revell box, with Revell’s decal sheet, It goes together with no vices and the decals are thin, l’ve built this kit myself and posted it’s pix on this forum.
Excellent thanks, I actually looked at prices at the Hasegawa Hurricane’s and this one will work out about$15 cheaper, so I’m off to buy it [:D]
I searched the forum for your pics but couldn’t find them , can you point me in the right direction[?]
elstunto,
Here are a couple of pix of the Revell 48 Hurricane IIc, that is reboxed from the Hasegawa kit. I hope they are of help.
it is the same kit …you will see “Made In Japan” on the parts tree. i working on the same kit right now
I’m building a Hasegawa Hurricane IId right now. It’s a simple, but very nice little kit. Not a whole lot of parts, but nice fit. Simple though the basic kit is, when I pulled out that double Eduard fret that came this week, I knew I had my work cut out for me. The really annoying thing about the Hasegawa kit is, here you have the framing in the cockpit, giving you something different from the standard seat-and-two-consoles interior, and they give you a thick, one-piece canopy. The first thing I ordered when I bought this kit a year or so ago was the True Details vac-formed canopy, which is in the standard two-pack, after I figured that cutting that thick lilttle kit canopy apart would result in a sliding section that would not fit over the fuselage hump. I also picked up the resin wheels at the same time, since they were cheap, and a comparison with the kit wheels shows the resin wheels have more detail, and are not just molds of the kit wheels with the tires flattened, which I’m finding that many, and probably most, of these AM flattened resin wheels are.
But the Eduard set is a beaut for this kit, and now that it’s arrived I’ve made my first tentative steps at building it. Hasegawa also has a new issue of this kit (notice the interchangable nose mount) in Free French Markings and in an earlier mark.
Tom
Thanks to all. I bought it .